Mistress Pamela

Mistress Pamela
British quad poster
Directed by	Jim O'Connolly
Produced by	Jim O'Connolly
Written by	Jim O'Connolly
Based on	the novel by Samuel Richardson
Starring	Ann Michelle Julian Barnes Dudley Foster Anna Quayle Anthony Sharp
Music by	David Whitaker
Cinematography	Arthur Ibbetson
Edited by	Fergus McDonell
Production company	Merlot Film Productions
Distributed by	Anglo-EMI (UK) Fanfare Films (USA)
Release dates	January 1974 (US release)
Running time	91 min
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Mistress Pamela is a 1974 British sex comedy drama film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Ann Michelle, Julian Barnes, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle and Anthony Sharp. It was loosely based on the 1740 novel Pamela by Samuel Richardson.^[1][2]

Plot

In the eighteenth century, Pamela, a servant girl in the household of Lord Devenish, must fight off the advances of her young master - a gentleman determined to have Pamela as his mistress.

Cast

• Ann Michelle - Pamela Andrews
• Julian Barnes - Lord Robert Devenish
• Dudley Foster - Jonathan
• Anna Quayle - Mrs Jelks
• Anthony Sharp - Longman
• Rosemarie Dunham - Mistress Blimper
• Derek Fowlds - Sir Percy
• Jessie Evans - Widor Parr
• Ken Parry - Parson
• Fred Emney - Dr Livesey
• Fredric Abbott - John Andrews
• Marianne Stone - Katie

Critical reception

Time Out wrote, "Richardson's 18th century classic Pamela clearly dredged up for its bawdy possibilities...About all the film has in common with the original is a notable lack of humour."^[3]

References

1. "Mistress Pamela". BFI.
2. "Mistress Pamela (1974)". IMDb. 1 January 1974.
3. "Mistress Pamela". Time Out London.